C-U Blogfidential

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We finally run never-before-seen pictures of Derek Klein and crew at work filming a scene on the University of Illinois’ Main Quad for Premonition Pictures’ A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW! Also, watch the opening segment of POV right here and learn where to check out the entire movie on-line!

In this edition of C-U Blogfidential’s all-purpose column, “C-U Biz-en-scène,” we tell you what happened to A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW, how we upgraded our new YouTube channel, which publications profiled friends of CUBlog, and what movies are now playing/renting near you!

Decatur area native and former Champaign resident Alaric Rocha returns downstate this weekend to shoot his latest short film, WINTER IN LOUISIANA.

Summit Entertainment released the well-received documentary BROTHERS AT WAR, directed by Decatur native Jake Rademacher, to DVD on Tuesday, January 12, 2010.

Springfield native and former Mahomet/C-U resident Laura Bynum returns to the area to read from her just-published first novel, Veracity (Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster) at 7 p.m. tonight, Tuesday, January 12, 2010, at Borders bookstore in north Champaign.

The DVD release for the production A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW, filmed on the University of Illinois campus in the spring of 2009 by current and former UIUC students, has been pushed back to the spring of 2010.

Look closely in the correct Big Lots commercial airing on television and you will see our friend, actress/writer Danielle Cloutier, take one more small step towards the big time.

On December 8, 2009, IFC Films and MPI Media Group released to DVD the independent film thriller HOME MOVIE, written and directed by University of Illinois graduate Christopher Denham.

On Wednesday, September 30, 2009, CNGM Pictures of Palatine, IL, released to DVD their college-set drama NORMAL LIFE, filmed in Bloomington-Normal during the spring of 2006.

Several individuals would like to stand up in front of a local audience this week and tell us all about it. Are you game to listen and learn, dearest readers?

Illini Film & Video, the student film-making club at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will next meet at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, September 14, 2009, in Room 104 of the English Building.

Multi-instrumentalist and studio engineer Jay Bennett of Urbana has passed away at age 45.

Did you really think that THE GARBAGE MAN was forever buried underneath the sands of time? Think again, punk.

Urbana native Roger Ebert sings the praises of Urbana native Nina Paley’s film SITA SINGS THE BLUES, which might just play in a certain Champaign film festival in April.

Articles in Bloomington (IL) daily The Pantagraph about the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominating Illinois Wesleyan University alumnus Richard Jenkins for an Academy Award as Best Actor in THE VISITOR and recent Illinois State University graduate Ben Marten earning a role on the A&E television series, THE BEAST.